Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



J. 0. PET-MEOKY. Breech-Loading Fire-Arm.

- No; 210,144; Patnte-d Nov. 19,1878.

WM" l! UNITED STATESPATENT OFFIcE.

JOSEPH O. PETMEGKY, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210.144, dated November 19, 1878; application filed August 9, 1878.

To all whom i may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. PETMECKY,

- of Austin, in the county of Travis and State of and do hereby declare that the following is a .full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to breech-loading firearms; and it consists in certain improvements upon Letters Patent recently granted to me, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawing, Figure l is a longitudinal section of a breech-loadin g fire-arm embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same, showing the end of the breech. Figs. 3 and 4 show the breech-block, and Fig. 5 shows the hammer.

A represents the frame, B the barrel, 0 the breech-block, and D the hammer, of a breechloading fire-arm. The breech-block O is connected with the spring E. F is the main or hammer spring. Gr is the trigger, and H the trigger-spring. I is the link connecting the hammer and breech-block, so that after the hammer is raised to full-cock afurther pull on k the hammer will open the breech-block.

that said extractor will have a circular motion. In the side of the breech-block is a dog, d, to operate upon the lower end of the arm L These parts are so arranged th at the extractor L will start the shell, while the extractor L ejects or throws it out. The starter L has a great power to draw, and acts first, and when the shell is started the ejector L working faster, takes it from the starter and throws it out with great force.

The top of the breech-block'C is cut away so as to leave a small ridge, h, and the hammer D underneath has a similar ridge, i, so that when the breech-block is thrown back, if the trigger should be pulled and the breechblock then thrown forward, it cannot be thrown far enough forward to let the hammer fall, but is caught and held by the ridges h "5. These ridges I call safety-catches, and they will prevent the gun from firing when the breech-block is thrown back and the trigger pulled.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of an extractor inserted in the barreland workin g on a line therewith, and an ejector pivoted to the frame and working on the arc of a circle, and a pivoted breech-block for op erating both the extractor and the eject-0r, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination of the extractor or starter L, with projection a, the ejector L, with pivoted arm L and the breech block 0, with 

